Box-Office Weekend: Godzilla Is King

A new film assumed the number one slot of the box-office weekend top ten as Godzilla Minus Zero debuted $11.1 million ahead of the film that finished in second place.

“Godzilla Minus Zero” posterIn its first weekend in theaters, the GKIDS product Godzilla Minus Zero brought in $31.6 million for the studio, easily claiming the top spot of this weekend’s top ten. Meanwhile, The Cat in the Hat debuted in second place with $20.5 million earned over the weekend for Warner Brothers. Third place saw Angel’s Drummer Boy bring in $9.3 million during its opening weekend. Falling from first to fourth, You Can See Everything added $8.9 million over the weekend to bring the A24 product’s four-week total to $79.8 million. Sony Pictures Releasing enjoyed a fifth-place debut for Ramayana: Rise of A Legend where the film picked up $8.7 million for the studio.

Following a second-place finish a week ago, the Warner Bros. release Clayface dropped to sixth place this weekend, where it made $6.7 million, to bring the film’s three-week total to $56.6 million. Similarly, after claiming third place last week, Wildwood fell to seventh place this weekend as it made $6.6 million to lift its three-week total to $39.4 million. Eighth place saw the $6.0 million debut of Searchlight Pictures’ Wild Horse Nine. Falling five spots from a week ago, Black Bear’s Wicker claimed ninth place with $3.4 million over the weekend, giving the film a three-week total of $19.9 million. Finally, the biographical film Jimmy debuted in tenth place where it took in $2.2 million over the weekend.

This weekend six films were forced out the top ten as the fifth- through tenth-place finishers from seven days ago were all brushed from the top ten by the aforementioned newcomers. Following a fifth-place finish last week, Paramount Pictures’ Street Fighter fell from the top ten sporting a four-week total of $57.4 million for the studio. Meanwhile, Trafalgar Releasing’s BTS World Tour ‘Arirang’ in São Paulo: Live Viewing brought in $2.8 million for the studio during its limited release last weekend. After eight weeks, Resident Evil has made $159.7 million for Columbia Pictures despite falling out of the top ten this weekend following a seventh-place finish a week ago. With a five-week total of $58.3 million, the Universal Pictures release Other Mommy lost its eighth-place standing from a week ago and dropped of this weekend’s top ten. In its fourth week on release, Sony Pictures Releasing’s The Only Living Pickpocket in New York has made the studio a total of $3.9 million, but the film couldn’t repeat its ninth-place finish from seven days ago. Finally, Paramount Pictures has seen Heart of the Beast bring in a total of $67.2 million over the last seven weeks, but the film couldn’t continue its momentum to retain a spot in the top ten this weekend.

Weekend Box Office
(November 6th – November 8th)

  1. Godzilla Minus Zero…$31.6 Million
  2. The Cat in the Hat…$20.5 Million
  3. Drummer Boy…$9.3 Million
  4. You Can See Everything…$8.9 Million
  5. Ramayana: Rise of A Legend…$8.7 Million
  6. Clayface…$6.7 Million
  7. Wildwood…$6.6 Million
  8. Wild Horse Nine…$6.0 Million
  9. Wicker…$3.4 Million
  10. Jimmy…$2.2 Million
An independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, the Editor in Chief of CinemaNerdz.com has spent much of the last three decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema, beginning in February 1991 reviewing films for his college newspaper. He was a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, as well as the group's webmaster and one-time President for over a decade until the group ceased to exist. His contributions to film criticism can be found in Magill's Cinema Annual, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (of which he was the editor for nearly a decade until it too ceased to exist), the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and the St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). He has also appeared on the television program Critic LEE Speaking alongside Lee Thomas of FOX2 and Adam Graham, of The Detroit News. He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their dogs.

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